Video: Mariachi El Bronx "I Would Die 4 U" (Cover)

Filed under: Exclusive , Spinner Interview , Q + A Lisa Johnson Donning their charros and dusting off their accordion and guitarrón, Los Angeles punk band the Bronx have just released 'II,' their second album as alter-incarnation Mariachi El Bronx . Adapting more Norteño influence this time around, the band has progressed from their early YouTube-tutored attempts at imitating the complicated rhythms employed in authentic mariachi music, creating their own heartfelt style, punk-influenced [...]

After discovering Mariachi El Bronx via their gorgeously festive remake of Prince's "I Would Die 4 U" from SPIN's Purplish Rain tribute mixtape a while back, we were surprised to learn, after a couple seconds of Internet sleuthing, that MEB was not only this amazing band with an expert handling of the mariachi musical style (at least, what sounds like "expert handling" from our limited-knowledge-of-the-genre standpoint), but actually the alter-ego of The Bronx , a well-established hardcore punk band out of L.A. And we thought we had heard it all. [...]

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Mariachi El Bronx , the alter ego of El Bronx but this time less punk and more mariachi, the lost son of Calexico but with chilli. Their album Mariachi El Bronx out on august 21 Mariachi El Bronx, el alter ego de " El Bronx " pero esta vez menos punk y más mariachi, el hijo perdido de Calexico pero con chile. Su disco Mariachi El Bronx a la venta el 21 de agosto MP3: Mariachi El Bronx - [...]

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